Monaca CLI + 3rd Party Plugins

Just to be fair, I did try to submit this question on the Monaca website for them to answer it, but I couldn’t get the question to submit.

My question is this: Can you add 3rd Party Cordova plugins to a project created on the Monaca CLI if you don’t have a paid plan?

I know you need to have a paid plan on the Monaca online IDE if you want to add 3rd party plugins, but is it the same on the CLI version?

I have a plain Cordova app, created with the “cordova create” command and one that was created via the Monaca CLI. My plugin works on the plain cordova app, but not the Monaca version, so I was wondering if that was the issue.